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Site name Shrewton 5a, Net Down
Site number 478
Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4101 4104 4109 4110 4111 4128 4129 4141 4152 4153 4154 4181 3002 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3036 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3084 3085 3092 3098 3104 3111 3127 3128 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181 3200
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a ditch of overlapping shallow scoops (causewayed/ interrupted ditches?) post dating a large pit at the north point of the circuit and ante dating a V-sectioned ditch cut through the base of its main circuit. In the last at the south east end was inserted the contracted body of an infant in a conical pit, filled and covered with a flint nodule cairn (interment 2).

At the barrow centre was laid the contracted body of an adult male in a shallow grave cut into the chalk, oriented NE/SW, with a Beaker of Clarke's S2 group upright behind the heels. The grave was filled with earth and upcast chalk was heaped over in a 'cairn'. There were stake structures on the barrow floor around this, the primary burial (interment 1).
14/1300bc-8/700bc In the south east sector of the ditch were inserted above the line of the silted V-ditch 18 cremation burials (interments 3-21), 3 deposited with complete pots, 4 others with potsherds. The layer in which the cremations were found (L4) seems to have contained much domestic debris, although there could have been plough disturbance. Interment 20 cut through a hearth, and its bucket urn was covered by burnt flint and sarsen fragments. Interments 15, 16 and 18 were sited outside the V-ditch line, and two were in fine inverted globular urns in well cut pits. One vessel's sherds occurred in both 13 and 19.

There may have been secondary burials in the mound top, destroyed by ploughing (unabraded collared urn sherds).

RC: interment 5 HAR-4827 1170 +/- 100, and interment 6 HAR-4828 1220 +/- 90
Remains/Period Y4 Y3
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 86
Y coordinate 448
Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984


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